Sash-cord attachment.



P. HEIN.

SASH CORD ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-27,1914.

WITNESSES I INVENTOR W ATTORNEYS THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60-. WASHINGTON. n. q.

1,172,136. Patented Feb. 15,1916.

pairs PAUL HEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SASI-I-CORD ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1916.

Application filed January 27, 1914. Serial No. 814,700.

To allwhom t'zfmag concern: I

Be it known that I, PAUL HEIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedSash-Cord Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to window construction and has particular reference to means for securing sash cords to window sashes and the window weights.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a novel anchoring means for the end of the cord to the window sash. such anchoring means being adapted to be put in place or changed without disturbing the window sash or frame surrounding it.

scribed and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the window casing showing my improvement in operation; Fig. 2 is a detail view indicating the means for carrying the loose end of the cord into and through the casing; Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Figs. 4c and 5 are detail per spective views of modified forms of anchors; and Fig. 6 is a modification of the clasp for securing the cord temporarily to the flexible weights.

The several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent Without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings for a description of the mechanism I show at 10 a window sash slidable vertically in guides 11 along a window frame or casing 12. A sash cord 13 is connected or anchored to the outer portion of the window sash by means of an anchor 14: lying within a groove 15 formed in the outer edge of the sash in the usual manner durmg the manufacture thereof. Said cord operates along said groove and thence over a pulley 16, the loose end of the cord passing downwardly for adjustment to the window weight 17.

The anchor may be made in any suitable manner and in any number of parts, but is adapted to be clamped to the outer end of the cord as, for instance, by means of one or more set screws 18 binding directly into the cord, said end of the cord being embedded or housed within the anchor. The anchor is provided with a notch or other opening 19 extending therethrough and through which a pin or screw 20 may be passed from the inner face of the window sash closely adjacent the guide or strip 11, but accessible without removing said guide strip. Said pin or screw 20 looks the anchor in position in the groove 15. The cord being connected in the manner indicated in the anchor, the latter may be passed freely down-' wardly in the top of the sash into position where it may be locked by means of the pin. While the sash is down the outer end of the cord may have temporarily secured to it a peculiar form of clasp 21 having a hook 22 and an oppositely arranged loop 23, the loop embracing or passing around the cord, and the hook extending into the cord toward the loop. Upon attachment of a weight or a series of weights 9.4 to the eye 25 of the clasp, the outer end of the cord may be caused to pass inwardly and downwardly through the casing whereby, when the window sash is elevated, said free end may be connected with the weight 17 upon detachment of the clasp 21 and weights. The only part of the window construction which must be disturbed in making this construction is the panel which is removahly fitted in the space indicated at 12.

The anchor member is provided with rounded cylindrical ends to facilitate the introduction thereof into or removal thereof from locking position, and the opening or hole 19 extends transversely through the locking member at ri ht angles to the plane defined by the axes of said cylindrical ends.

In Fig. 5 I show a form of anchor 14 having a hole 19 therethrough of substantially the same character as above described but of a nature adapting it for connection of a chain 13' instead of a cord. The manipulation of the chain otherwise may be substantially the same as above described,

in connection with the cord 13. The chain 13' is shown connected to the anchor 14 by means of a pin or screw 18.

' That form of clasp 21 shown in Fig. 6

is of the same general character as the one described above but includes two loops 28 extending around that portion of the cord opposite the hook 522. The hook 22 may be easily and readily freed from the cord by pressure upon the shoulders 24 toward each other. A pull, however, upon the eye 25 will tend to hold the hook all the firmer in the cord.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The herein described means for connecting a weight to a Window sash comprising the combination with the window sash having a groove at its outer edge, of a nonrotary anchor member rectangular in cross section fitted in said groove, said anchor member having rounded cylindrical ends and a hole extending transversely therethrough at right angles to the plane of the axes of said ends, a flexible weight support having the inner end thereof extending into said anchor member, a transverse member detachably locking the flexible member end Within the anchor member, and a pin passing through said transverse hole to lock the anchor in position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL HEIN; Witnesses:

G110. L. BEELER, PHILIP D. ROLLI-IAUS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

